Tomorrow I will be putting another novel up on Amazon, and no, it will not be the third book or the Exodus, Refuge or Deep Dark Well series. The third books of all those series will be out this year, starting with Exodus next month. But I needed something to do with my spare time (LOL) while I had put Exodus 3 to bed for a short break and was working on the first draft of Refuge 3. I actually finished the first draft of We Are Death in January of 2012, after a horrible 2011 in which I started 7 books a finished none (more to come on those, as all will be finished, some day, and two others were). That was after an 2012 in which I completed five first drafts, including the two very long manuscripts that eventually became books one and two of both Refuge and Exodus. Originally with a working title of Tau Ceti, after the Earth colony mentioned in the first chapter. I then titled it The Last Invasion of Sol, but also didn’t like that title all that much. So I thought one of the statements by my antagonists might make a good title.
The idea for this novel came about from the movie Independence Day, and in fact I think of it as my Anti-Independence Day. Now there were a lot of things I liked about ID, great effects, big name stars, but horrible script writing. The two things that bothered me most were that a virus written on Microsoft could infect an alien computer system, and a tactical nuke could destroy a ship a quarter the mass of the Moon. I know, screen writers tend to think that all nukes are equal, big flippen devices that can destroy just about everything, but it just ain’t so. Add to that the tired trope of aliens trying to take the Earth for our resources, when there are more resources in space than at the bottom of our gravity well, and the movie has the same ridiculous antagonist motivations of many aliens before and since. So I decided to go with a different motivation, a simpler one. The aliens are death worshippers intent on destroying all life in the Universe, including, eventually, their own. And we know they are coming, having seen them first destroy one of our colonies on a laser transmission, then see them coming across the light years in their sublight ships. Needless to say, the aliens have superior tech, mostly, versus the industrial base of the Solar System. But never count humanity out. Some of their tech is more advanced, other tech isn’t, and humanity is a past master of space warfare.
As said, the book will be on Amazon tomorrow. Official release day will be Friday, April 19, and the book will be offered for 99 cents on the 19th and the 20th. It is a stand alone novel with a lot of action throughout. I hope all of my readers enjoy it. And remember, Exodus, Refuge and The Deep Dark Well books three are coming.